The first few months of 2022 have been career changing ones for Deanna Heer KC. Having just been appointed Senior Treasury Counsel in January (she was made Junior Treasury Counsel in 2015), Deanna, together with 100 other advocates, were bestowed with the title of KC at the appointment ceremony presided over by the Lord Chancellor at Westminster Hall on 21st March 2022. Deanna – who grew up in Rugby and is the daughter of a Sikh father and an English “with Welsh blood” mother – is a highly experienced criminal barrister. She is a specialist homicide lawyer with a background […]
In March 2022, Simon Goldberg KC joined the ranks of silks, making him one of only two specialist business and property silks based in the North East. As one senior judge put it, Simon – who lives with his family in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne – “is a standard setter and standard bearer for the North East”. Simon is head of his chambers’ business and property team and regularly appears in the chancery and King’s bench divisions of the high court, and in arbitrations. His principal areas of expertise include, amongst much else, contractual disputes, commercial fraud, shareholder disputes, landlord […]